Mysteries of Physics I just read We Have No Idea by Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson, a book about all the things we don’t know about the physical universe. These include: dark matter, dark energy, the basic elements of matter, the nature of mass, why gravity is so different from other forces, the nature of […]
Eloise She was just a bright young thing Not yet fully grown But she caught my eye across the room She cleverly made herself known So I took her home with me And introduced her to her new friends It was tense at first But soon they were happy as larks Oh […]
I Know a Girl I know a girl likes to dance and sing This girl is up for most anything I took her dancing on a Saturday night And wouldn’t you know I got into a fight Too many guys just hanging round She got her red dress on her feet don’t […]
Earth Song Earth is that your voice I hear? Are you whispering to me? Do I feel your soul in mine? Is your mind in my mind? I sense your wide expanse Your molten heart Your halo of air Your oceans, mountains and life You sing to me of ancient times […]
Hazy Babies I was driving alone along route 95 Lights were flashing and I started to dive I told you I loved you and you said you loved me And the hazy babies were nausea clothed Oh-oh-oh don’t go-oh-oh Don’t go oh please don’t go! I was reading a book that made […]
Song I have just stopped taking voice lessons with my esteemed teacher Nicole, after two and a half years. She took me from lamentable singer to not-too-bad performer, even if I say so myself. After a year of intense coaching and practice I achieved my goals, rather to my surprise. We then formed a […]
No More Philosophy Readers may have noticed a cessation in the philosophical essays I have been posting on this blog. The reason for this is that I have nothing further to say. For the past several years I have been writing down my philosophical thoughts and publishing them here. I never intended to do […]
Knowledge and Belief The traditional analysis of knowledge as true justified belief encourages the following picture (though it doesn’t strictly entail it): there is a common psychological element to knowledge and non-knowledge, which we can call “belief”, and knowledge is the result of supplementing this element with further conditions that together add […]
Joshua Katz Let’s be clear, the treatment of Professor Joshua Katz is just the latest example of American stupidity, hysteria, callousness, violence, cowardice, and general vileness to occur in American universities. How people can justify this evil is beyond me. As for his so-called friends—the ones who ran for the hills for rather obvious […]
Ed was a genuinely good man–and reviled for it. He was tough and gentle at the same time. He was also an exceptionally good philosopher.